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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Is it really true love, if a wish compelled it?

Millennium Falcon. Just saying.

Actually, I think I’d rather a Ton Falk, complete with a collection of fighters/bombers to go with it.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What would you need all those military vehicles for, though? Who exactly are you fighting?

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Yep, that's the thing. The girl was walking around and got commandeered into loving this guy. So much for the illusion of free will.

I would also have asked for a starship: reverse engineer that and you've single handedly saved the human race from the climate disaster.

[–] Fisk400@feddit.nu 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

She wished for true love too, Wich is why he is there at all.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

But if that is true, then he had no free will. He was there because of her wish!

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

We're getting into the nature of free will, whether or not it exists at all. One of the hardest questions we've never really been able to answer, and quite possibly never will.

What if the well is merely looking into the infinite possibilities and determining who the true love is based on what will happen anyway? What if she also made a wish at another well at the same time, also for true love? What if she didn't exist at all, prior to his wish, and was created as his true love?

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 5 points 11 months ago

It's compulsion all the way down..

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But what if it simply found his true love on this world and teleported her to him?

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

And then she falls instantly without knowing anything about the dude? Very reasonable

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Imma wish for a book describing how to build that spaceship in terms we can comprehend to spite your wish and beat you to the punch.

Or, you know, I could wish for a solution to climate change but you know, space techno dystopia sounds pretty metal

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Okay skip that. I’m going to wish for an automated droid processing plant/factory with design files of every known class of ship- and the defiant, just to fuck with people.

I believe they’re called world devastators?

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, space is over-rated. Imma wish for no more wishes, for anybody. Fuck that well

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I’m sooo I’m in line ahead of you.

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

That spaceship will have a compact powerplant with enormous amounts of energy in a very small place. That solves the climate change crisis

[–] rbits@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Nah, it's magic, it can just make it so that the girl happened to be in the right place. Maybe it told the girl that she would find true love there and she decided to go.

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Maybe it just brought them together giving them both true love.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Arguing about the trueness of love is just getting too into semantics and willfully creating a non true scottsman debate.

[–] eek2121@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I’ll take a Death Star and a shuttle to get to it. You won’t believe what happens next!

🌎💥

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

That kid with the xwing blows it up?

[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Come on, if you are going there, wish for a Battle Planetoid like Dahak, often described "what the death star wants to be when it grows up".

Armorments include multiple km thick armor, mass missiles capable of destabilizing stars... and a park the size of Manhattan island for its captain.

Highlights from the books include being pelted by enough multi-gigaton missiles to make its deflectors look like the cornea of a star